Making Place with Plants. An Introduction

This special issue brings plant studies into conversation with anthropological discussions of place-making and emplacement, drawing particular attention to the analytical ambit of human–plant intimacies. Plant intimacies—ways of carefully attending to, affecting, and being affected by plants—are ubiquitous and central to many human lives but remain underexamined in anthropological conversations on home and place-making. Closely inquiring into these relationships allows for theorising on how people, plants, homes, and places become entangled in efforts to claim places and create liveable worlds. Articles in this issue draw attention to the queer, affective, embodied potentials of making homes and places with plants in the face of drastic displacements that affect contemporary human and plant life-worlds.